More than 2,600 people have fallen ill in Inner Mongolia after their tap water supply was contaminated during heavy rainfall. It remains striking that the word's second biggest economy cannot guarantee safe drinking water for its population...    more »

The global solar energy industry is currently going through turbulent times due to overcapacity and the credit crunch. But economic stimulus packages in China will help lead the industry out of the trough...    more »

China has started construction of a 10 gigawatt wind farm, the first of seven giant wind farms that it plans to build before 2020. But western turbine makers may face a tougher time winning orders for these mega farms than they did in the recent past..   more »

The 13m residents of Beijing can at last breath more easily -- but for how long? Air pollution in the capital over the last six months reached its lowest level in the decade, officials report. So far this year, Beijing has had 23 more "blue sky days" than ...    more »

PepsiCo has opened China's first "green" beverage plant in Chongqing and reiterated plans to invest $1 billion in the country. The drinks giant says this is the first plant in the industrial centre of Chongqing to comply with LEED, a US standard for green buildings...    more »

Back in 2005 the EU agreed to cooperate with China on climate change. Four years on and several billion tonnes of CO2 later, the two have finally found a project on which they can cooperate...    more »

Chongqing has ambitions to become not just one of the biggest cities in the world but also one of the greenest. The city government plans to subsidise the purchase of hybrid cars to the tune of 43,000 yuan -- almost $6,300...    more »

The Pearl River Delta's rapid industrialisation and enviable growth in living standards have come with a high environmental price tag. The World Wildlife Fund has launched an initiative to help manufacturing industries in the region reduce their carbon footprint...    more »

JA Solar's dismal results show that despite the favourable political backdrop for solar energy in many countries, it may take some time for the benefits to feed through to the top -- and bottom -- lines ...   more »

Reflecting China's newfound commitment to alternative energy, China Resources Power Holdings, one of the country's largest power companies, plans to quadruple its wind farm capacity from a currently derisory 1% share of total capacity...   more »